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Austin Loses Only In-Home Pediatric Hospice as Dell Children's Shuts Program
Dell Children’s Medical Center — Site of Ending Pediatric Hospice Program. Dell Children's Medical Center has shut down its hospice-at-home program, eliminating what families say was Central Texas's only option for dying children to receive hospice care in their own homes. The shift moves care to an outpatient clinic setting, and at least one mother says she found out her daughter would lose home visits just two weeks before the change took effect.
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There’s a new academic medical system in Austin: UT Dell Medicine
UT Austin will now extend the name “Dell” to all the university’s medical facilities and services, creating a cohesive university academic medical system called UT Dell Medicine. The announcement comes as plans are underway for a new university hospital known as Dell Medical Center, which officials called...
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4 more animals test positive for rabies in San Marcos area, child exposed to infected bat
SAN MARCOS, Texas — San Marcos officials are warning residents to take precautions after four additional animals tested positive for rabies in the area, including a bat that came into contact with a child. According to the City of San Marcos, the newly confirmed cases involve three foxes and...
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Health officials urge vaccination amid illness concerns
As influenza (flu) season begins, health professionals advise students to get vaccinated ahead of the peak winter flu season. The flu is a contagious respiratory illness caused by viruses that circulate seasonally. Through common spaces such as classrooms or residence halls, Rodney Rohde, regents’ professor in medical laboratory science and professor in clinical laboratory science, said students can spread respiratory infections, and viruses change over time, making annual vaccination important.
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Ascension Seton Acquires Three Austin-Area Medical Facilities
Ascension Seton acquired three Texas health care facilities from Family Hospital Systems. The healthcare centers are located in Round Rock, Cedar Park and near Lake Travis. The healthcare system stated the move is planned to expand emergency care access amid growth in the greater Austin area. Family Hospital at Lake...
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Adolfson & Peterson completes renovation and 106-bed expansion at Cross Creek Hospital in Austin
Adolfson & Peterson Construction completed a renovation and 106-bed expansion project for Cross Creek Hospital in Austin, Texas. The inpatient behavioral health hospital will operate under a joint venture partnership between Ascension Seton and Acadia Healthcare to help address the region’s critical need for behavioral health services. The phased...
northwestquarterly.com
New Services, New Physicians, Refreshed FVO
Change is a constant in life, and there’s plenty of it recently at Fox Valley Orthopedics (FVO) and its clinics in Geneva, Elgin, Algonquin, Barrington, Yorkville, Huntley and Aurora. It’s all an effort to ensure high-quality, cost-effective orthopedic care in the suburbs, says Dr. Vishal Mehta, FVO president and...
CBS Austin
Austin’s 'Hospital of the Future’ Is Being Designed With AI From the Ground Up
AUSTIN, Texas — Austin’s hospital of the future is starting to take shape, and artificial intelligence is being designed into it from day one. Leaders from Dell Medical School, The University of Texas at Austin, and MD Anderson Cancer Center gathered at UT’s Real Health AI Symposium to discuss their vision for an intelligent hospital.
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Round Rock Memory Care Facility to Pay Guard Medic $15,000 Over Demotion
University Village Memory Care — Employer In Demotion Settlement. A Round Rock memory care facility has agreed to pay $15,000 to a National Guard combat medic after federal prosecutors accused it of demoting her for taking military training leave. University Village Memory Care, a 74-unit assisted living facility at 4701 Campus Village Drive, settled the case under a consent decree signed earlier this month by a federal judge in Austin.
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The 10 spine groups with the most physicians: Final ASM list released
CMS has released the final participant list for its Ambulatory Specialty Model, a mandatory payment model that will tie physicians’ Medicare Part B pay to their performance on low back pain care, starting Jan. 1, 2027. The low back pain cohort includes 3,319 clinicians, down from about 4,027 on...
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Heartland Dental added 6 offices in September
Effingham, Ill.-based Heartland Dental added five de novos and one practice partnership to its network last month. Dental Care at Palomar (Lexington, Ky.) Dental Care at Pelican Pointe (Venice, Fla.) Heritage Square Dental Care (Palm Bay, Fla.) Shuttle View Dental Care (Titusville, Fla.) Trailside Dental Care (Georgetown, Texas) The DSO...
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HCA-affiliated St. David’s hospitals to go out of network with Cigna
Austin, Texas-based St. David’s HealthCare, a partnership between Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare and two nonprofits, is set to go out of network with Cigna Oct. 1. St. David’s hospitals, ASCs and affiliated hospital-based physicians in Texas will no longer be available in network, the health system’s website said.